Taste-testing school lunch menus

Thaily Medina, 10, a fifth-grader at the Thomas W. Mahan School, right, shows some apparent displeasure at one of the squash menu items available for sampling as students from around the Norwich school district try healthy new school menu items during a food tasting held by the Norwich Public Schools Food Services Department and the School Nutrition Association of Connecticut at the Bishop Early Learning Center Tuesday.

Norwich - Thaily Medina, 10, a fifth-grader at the Thomas W. Mahan School, right, shows some apparent displeasure at one of the squash menu items available for sampling as students from around the Norwich school district try healthy new school menu items during a food tasting held by the Norwich Public Schools Food Services Department and the School Nutrition Association of Connecticut at the Bishop Early Learning Center Tuesday.

Caidence Moon, 9, of the Veterans' Memorial School in Norwich is not sure what to make of one of the squash menu items available for sampling as students from around the Norwich school district try healthy new school menu items during a food tasting held by the Norwich Public Schools Food Services Department and the School Nutrition Association of Connecticut at the Bishop Early Learning Center in Norwich Tuesday April 29, 2014.